You can make magical attributes with your own hands. Find out what kind of mandrake plant is and how to make its prototype from plastic, foil and fabric. We also offer instructions on how to create a magic wand.
Magical attributes are easy to do with your own hands. With their help, you can play Harry Potter with your child, donate such a thing or leave it at home as a talisman.
What is mandrake root?
This name appears in various films and works where magic, mysticism, and rituals are present.
Someone thinks that this plant does not exist in nature, but it is not. Mandragora is a perennial, medicinal species can be grown even in the suburbs. This plant belongs to the nightshade family.
The roots are of particular interest. They look like a torso with legs. Some underground parts can be up to 2 m in length, and the average size is 1 m.
The flowers of this plant are similar to bells and are purple, green and blue.
This plant is short and only slightly rises above the ground, the leaves reach 80 cm and practically spread along the ground. When the flowers have faded, orange fruits are formed. This usually happens in September.
But mandrake and all its parts are poisonous, so you need to handle it very carefully.
There is a legend that when the root of the medicinal mandrake is dug up, this plant emits a heartbreaking cry that can drive a person crazy and lead to death.
In ancient times, to extract the root from the ground, a hungry black dog was tied to it. Then the bones were thrown away from the plant. The dog rushed to the food and thus dug out the root. But after that she died.
Shamans and magicians made hallucinogenic tinctures from this plant, and amulets and amulets were created from the roots.
What the mandrake root looks like, photos show. In ancient times, men were given it to maintain male libido, women were treated for infertility. They say that then they knew how to determine the female male roots.
Scammers have existed at all times. Some of them gave root crops the shape of a mandrake root, then laid the seeds of grains or plants here and planted them in the ground. After the seeds sprout, scammers sold these items as mandrake roots.
Now you know about this magical attribute. But it's best not to risk it and try to use the real mandrake root. If you want to have a similar item, we suggest making it yourself. And let you have such an amulet at home.
How to make the magic attribute mandrake root?
Such a wonderful little thing can be handed over to good friends, thereby solving the problem with the gift.
Take the foil and shape it into a chicken carcass shape. Take a baked plastic and stick it around this workpiece.
You will also need greens. You can buy it at a pet store. It sells accessories for terrariums and aquariums. You can use the purchased ones in the form in which you purchased them or paint them using acrylic paints. Draw the facial features of the carcass. Twist a few plastic circles and attach them to the top of the mandrake.
Use a suitable tool to make a relief in the form of numerous thin stripes. And with a pencil on the top of the head, make holes where you will subsequently insert the plants. You can make several pimples out of plastic and attach them to the mandrake's body. Do not forget to mold plastic handles.
This is how the mandrake looks now, the photo demonstrates it. Bake the blank, and then use a glue gun to attach the leaves in place.
The workpiece is dry, now cover it with black, brown and dark green paints. Also paint the threads that you will tie to the feet of the talisman. It will seem that these are roots. Paint the greens a dark green.
When the paint is dry, this magical attribute should be covered with a matte acrylic lacquer.
This is the root of the mandrake. Another master class with step-by-step photos will help not only find out what kind of mandrake plant is, but also create it yourself. Junk materials and leftovers from needlework will be needed.
How to make mandrake root from plastic and cloth?
Take:
- foil;
- wire;
- scissors;
- self-hardening polymer clay;
- glass eyes;
- acrylic paints and acrylic primer;
- jute twine;
- brushes;
- a piece of cotton fabric;
- scissors;
- to fill the figure with pebbles or holofiber;
- floristic wire and tape;
- green foamiran;
- glue "Moment Crystal".
Form a ball of foil. Wrap the wire around it and cover the top arc with another piece of shiny paper.
Cover the workpiece with plastic. Make two small holes in the face to secure the glass eyes here.
You need to make the texture using a suitable tool. Roll a sausage out of plastic and attach it as the upper lip of the craft.
A magic attribute will be created very soon. But first, you add some plastic to create the cheeks and lower lip.
To make a mandrake root, take a jute twine, cut a piece from it and roll it several times. Sculpt circles out of plastic, crush them with your palms to make cakes. Put a rope blank in each such cake.
Now, using the tools at hand, give these root feet a texture.
Paint the preset data in the selected color. But the tone should be almost the same as the color of the clothes.
Cut 2 pieces of 5 cm from the wire, put holofiber, small stones on the fabric and place the mandrake blank here. Then it needs to be rolled up to shape.
To further make a magical attribute, wrap a piece of fabric around your neck and sew it on. You will also need to sew the loops of the garment so that they hold tight.
Put this baby on the selected fabric and wrap its head on top like a hood.
Lay the body of the amulet as shown in the photo, then cut between the two sections of wire and twist to form the legs.
Place a few turns of jute rope on the bottom, and then sew it with a thread and a needle.
To make greens, cut leaves from foamiran. Cut a few pieces of floral wire and staple the pieces together. To do this, you need to make a hook at the end of the wire, then fix it on the leaf, after which you will hide the junction with a floral tape.
Place a few of these leaves together and insert into the pre-formed hole on the top of your head.
To further make this magical amulet, fluff the threads on the sewn-on handles and legs and you can fasten the craft near the created twig or other object.
Read also how to make a talisman for money, family well-being and good luck
How to make a magic wand - master class and photo
If the child wants to have another magical attribute, help him make a magic wand. Then children will be able to feel like the heroes of the Harry Potter movie.
For a magic wand to really have positive properties, make it out of wood. To do this, you need to go to the forest, as city trees are weaker.
Go for a walk with pleasure. At this time, you should have harmony in your soul. To make a real magic wand, you can go to the waxing moon phase. You do not need to cut the first branch that comes across, go to the tree and mentally ask him. It should give you its twig.
Take it in your hands, close your eyes, and you will understand if this is your subject. Then you need to mentally thank the tree for such a gift.
It is best to take a branch of hazel or elderberry, since it is believed that these trees have magical properties.
The length of this attribute is from the edge of the middle finger to the elbow. It must be cut off with a sharp knife and hidden from prying eyes. Also, in solitude, you need to make a magic wand.
Arriving home, cut off the knots and bark from it, then you need to process it with sandpaper. The twig should be smooth. At this time, say the following words: “I conjure you, the omnipotent branch (of such and such a tree) by the forces of 4 elements - Earth, Water, Fire and Air! Take in their power and strength and be my faithful assistant!"
To further craft a magical attribute, make a hole on one side of the branch. You will need to place a magic core here.
Choose what type it will be:
- If you want the help of the energy of the Earth, then put a pebble or crystal here. It is better to take a stone that is determined by your horoscope. Field grasses are also suitable. If you want fame, use laurel, if you want a good memory, use rosemary. Lavender symbolizes devotion, and sage symbolizes wisdom.
- If you want the energetic Air to help, then put a feather of a bird in the stick. But don't use a rooster or raven feather.
- If you need Water's help, then use amber or a small container of water from the source of your choice. A small plastic container in which the seeds are sold will work. Since water is a changeable substance, it can be symbolized by a spring or wire.
- If you want to protect the energy of Fire, then use a small coal.
To make the magic wand further, it needs to be decorated. It is better to use delicious-smelling natural oils for this.
You can also decorate with beads, small pebbles, gluing them. Some decorate these attributes with feathers and pieces of fur, tying them to the top with beautiful threads.
Check out some examples of decorating these attributes.
If you wish, glue a dyed acorn on top. You can also decorate the stick with a large pebble fixed with glue.
You can attach a decorative stone with copper wire.
Those who know how to carve wood can create a real work of art by processing tree branches using special tools. Then these attributes will need to be painted and varnished.
Now it is necessary to conduct a rite of passage. For this, 2 days are suitable: May 1 and October 31. Place your trophy on a light, clean cloth, place a candle nearby. Say the words: "Become a guide, guardian and helper!"
Now you will need to extinguish the candle in water, then bury it in the ground.
Use the magic wand only for good deeds, so that it does not lose its positive magical properties.
A magic wand for a child can be decorated with beads, beautiful ribbons, attach a pompom or just such an asterisk at the end.
To make your daughter feel like a real fairy, take a strip of wide lace and wrap it around a jar of a suitable diameter. Now cut off the excess, starch this part, sew its ends and put it back on the jar to dry completely. In the same style, you will make a tip for a stick, and wrap it with a white satin ribbon.
The child will have a very beautiful magical attribute if you use rhinestones, beads, ribbons, feathers.
You can also use fabric flowers and other natural or artificial flowers, as well as white organza.
A magical attribute can even be made from a pencil. The next master class will teach this.
Magic wand made of pencil, paper
Take:
- pencil;
- thin colored tape;
- glue;
- pieces of felt;
- scissors.
Wrap the pencil first with pink, then blue tape so that the slanted stripes alternate.
Fix the flowers with glue. Now cut stars of different lengths from felt of different colors and glue them in a stack.
Glue several ribbons on top of the sticks, then the created stars. A girl can give such magical attributes to her girlfriends so that they have fun playing together.
And if you need to make a magic wand quickly, there is no suitable material at hand, then make it from a sheet of plain A4 paper.
To do this, fold this blank, starting at the corner, and cut off the ends. Glue them with a glue gun, also glue the middle part of the stick and you can decorate it with ribbons, pieces of fabric or sequins.
Children will surely like these magical attributes. And to make it work, see how to make a magic wand.
If you want to know more about the mandrake root, see this plant, then watch a short video. But do not rush to believe the author of the video, as now you know this plant is poisonous.
